In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Clark changed legacy systems that made sailors feel devalued. One such system was the Navy’s job assignment process.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. After graduating from Princeton in 2001, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. Be proactive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports).

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Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Using the concept of controlled chaos it is possible to increase efficiency and innovation. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. The result is a more effective organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. It's not just standardizing and streamlining.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

In 2001, Bill Gates stood up at Comdex and introduced Microsoft's first attempt at a Tablet PC to the world. But they just couldn't get it right — the company has rarely been able to bring innovations to market without seeing someone else do it first, and this instance was no different. The wheels are just starting to fall off.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s. So this view is often associated with innovation or disruption. When Innovation Is Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund. ”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." In 2001, they called Steve Jobs "The Graying Prince of a Shrinking Kingdom." Advantage instead went to the horizontal layers of chips and operating systems (cue Wintel). And perhaps they haven't for a long time.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 The Future of Operations. On the service side, the installation and maintenance of new systems in roads, power grids, and buildings (including homes), is likely to create jobs. million, were the largest in U.S. manufacturing output.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

One way to tell the story of mothers2mothers' growth is as follows: since 2001, the organization has expanded its operations to nine countries with an approximately $20 million operating budget. This innovation has impact. Helping decision-makers and their organizations co-implement the proven innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Someday, Apple's now 11-year-long run of nearly unbroken triumph (I'm dating it to the launch of the iPod in November 2001) is going to end. This is another Christensen observation, albeit a lot less famous than the one about disruptive innovation. That is just the way of the business world. The questions, of course, are when, and how.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service. Ofek cites the example of Intel, which in 2001 introduced a 64-bit processor called Itanium, indicating that the product was markedly different than Xeon, its 32-bit predecessor. Developing the Global Leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The execution of these systems is, as you''d expect, very different. There has been a dramatic shift in mentality, and it doesn''t take much to work out the date on which this happened: September 11, 2001. But the technology alone isn''t the problem. Much has been said about what happened in the aftermath of that tragic event.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

As it is written, the legislation would essentially force companies to engineer defects into the their security systems. companies to reverse years of enhancements and innovations in secure online transactions and data storage that power the world’s largest retail e-commerce market , valued at $238 billion. That was in 2001.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. To quote the article, “If organizations are ‘systems for getting work done,’ processes provide a fine-grained description of the means.” That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Walmart is the country’s largest employer and largest company by revenue and it reached that position through an operating model made possible by proprietary logistics software. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.

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